World Series thread

[Nola Beery]

3 hours ago, torts said:

Yesavage started off in A ball this year and is now opening the world series

Before I knew anything about this guy, I saw him in the ALCS. Honestly, I thought "get this guy outta here; he needs 3 double plays to save him."

[Nola Beery]

Aggressive or just stupid for Clement to go for 3d?

I say stupid with 2 out.

Of course I'd say it was brilliant if he'd been safe. 🙄😕

[trwi7]

The playoffs this year are basically what an 8 year old does in a video game. Change every player's rating on one team to 99 and change the settings to rookie.

[Brewluver]

Just got home, not surprised it's 2-zip already

[Nola Beery]

2-2.

2 run dinger by Varsho. Yay

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Marshfield and UWM's own Daulton Varsho!

[adambr2]

Nothing special about Snell tonight. We just couldn’t hit.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

8 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

Nothing special about Snell tonight. We just couldn’t hit.

Substantially more talented offense. Got shut down by Snell as well, but multiple times through the order and they caught on. There was also a perfect mix of attacking early in the count + discipline working counts. Only swung at the ones they could hit. 

[FidoMcCokefiend]

So you can PH for a weak hitter in a big spot huh? 

[Nola Beery]

Wow. Terrific inning by the birds.

[ReverendBrewmeister]

Feeling some joy at seeing the Blue Jays landing some haymakers on the Dodgers pitchers in Game 1.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Let's take a minute to ponder that Bo Bichette was tossed onto this roster at the last second and he would arguably be the best hitter in our lineup. 

[RobertCrawley]

17 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

Nothing special about Snell tonight. We just couldn’t hit.

Snell is not nearly as sharp tonight as he was against us. Looks almost like a different pitcher.

[yourout]

16 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

Nothing special about Snell tonight. We just couldn’t hit.

Yeah I don't think we were going to hit anybody. They could have dug up the corpse of Sandy Koufax and we probably wouldn't have been able to hit him.

[MDCrew]

Toronto doubled the amount of runs we scored in 4 games in 1 inning. 

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

Eric Lauer, zombie Brewer.

[adambr2]

47 minutes ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

Substantially more talented offense. Got shut down by Snell as well, but multiple times through the order and they caught on. There was also a perfect mix of attacking early in the count + discipline working counts. Only swung at the ones they could hit. 

Is it? They scored 8 less runs than us in the entire 162 game season.

[Brian]

8 hours ago, treego14 said:

Tell Dani that if the Blue Jays were in the NL, they would NOT be in the World Series!

Dani said the big-market Blue Jay fat boys just thrashing the old guys from LA. 😆 LOL, Toronto crowd chanting, "WE DON'T NEED YOU"  To Ohtani when he bats. Just awesome stuff. 

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

The Toronto crowd is a joy. Just reveling. I mean, it could all go to heck starting tomorrow, but it's great having an entire country behind one of the teams. If they can't win the Stanley Cup, they kind of deserve a World Series. 

[ReverendBrewmeister]

Just about as good a result for Toronto coming off the 7-game ALCS. Get a blowout win even with a short start from their back-of-the-rotation rookie pitcher.

Will see what Gausmann can give them from the mound in Game 2, along with the bats.

[BruisedCrew]

7 hours ago, yourout said:

Yeah I don't think we were going to hit anybody. They could have dug up the corpse of Sandy Koufax and we probably wouldn't have been able to hit him.

That would have been pretty cruel considering that Koufax is still around. 

But 89 year old Koufax would probably have baffled the playoff  version of the Brewers. 

[OldSchoolSnapper]

8 hours ago, adambr2 said:

Is it? They scored 8 less runs than us in the entire 162 game season.

Yeah I don't put a whole lot of stock into runs scored as a measure of offense, it's not like football. When you play 162 games and manufacture runs the way the Brewers do, you are putting a ton of base runners on against the schlubs of the league. It's a totally different dynamic when you have to get actual hits against elite teams throwing their 4 best guys in a brief do or die series. Then it becomes talent on talent and there is no way looking at that lineup, that I can say we have more talented hitters than Toronto. 

It was apparent when the Brewers patience was neutralized just by Snell throwing strikes. Before the 6th he did the same thing to Toronto, but they started hitting him anyway. 

We were 3rd in RS in MLB. Does someone believe we had the 3rd best offense?

[adambr2]

1 hour ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

Yeah I don't put a whole lot of stock into runs scored as a measure of offense, it's not like football. When you play 162 games and manufacture runs the way the Brewers do, you are putting a ton of base runners on against the schlubs of the league. It's a totally different dynamic when you have to get actual hits against elite teams throwing their 4 best guys in a brief do or die series. Then it becomes talent on talent and there is no way looking at that lineup, that I can say we have more talented hitters than Toronto. 

It was apparent when the Brewers patience was neutralized just by Snell throwing strikes. Before the 6th he did the same thing to Toronto, but they started hitting him anyway. 

We were 3rd in RS in MLB. Does someone believe we had the 3rd best offense?

I don’t know. I don’t know how to compute all that and how it varies in a playoff environment versus an elite team compared to a regular season team versus a mediocre team. I am just pointing out that the total offensive output over the course of the entire season was very similar overall.

We don’t have any elites in the lineup like the Prince Fielder/Ryan Braun days but there’s also no real offensive liabilities besides Ortiz in the regular lineup. So it’s not as top heavy, but deeper.

I will say that the Brewers have some talented hitters who were complete no shows in the playoffs — Yelich, Contreras, Frelick and Turang come to mind.

 

[Brian]

1 hour ago, OldSchoolSnapper said:

talent on talent there is no way looking at that lineup, that I can say we have more talented hitters than Toronto. 

It was apparent when the Brewers patience was neutralized just by Snell throwing strikes. Before the 6th he did the same thing to Toronto, but they started hitting him anyway. 

We were 3rd in RS in MLB. Does someone believe we had the 3rd best offense?

Brewers being held to a .118 avg. VS the playoff Dodgers says a lot to me.

Our over preformannce in a moderate division sure helped the 2025 Brewers. 

Cardinals a very medeoker team this year,  Pirates 3rd worst team in all baseball,  Reds even had a chance for the playoffs because of the NL Centeral's mediocrity and I do not think the Reds were that good. 

[sveumrules]

32 minutes ago, Brian said:

Our over preformannce in a moderate division sure helped the 2025 Brewers. 

Cardinals a very medeoker team this year,  Pirates 3rd worst team in all baseball,  Reds even had a chance for the playoffs because of the NL Centeral's mediocrity and I do not think the Reds were that good. 

NL Central was hardly mediocre this year. Pirates also had the 5th fewest wins in all baseball, not the 3rd.

Wins by Division in 2025...

AL East (429) NL Central (421)
AL West (406) NL East (400)
NL West (387) AL Central (387)

First Place Teams
MIL (97) PHI (96) TOR (94) LAD (93) SEA (90) CLE (88)

Second Place Teams
NYY (94) CHC (92) SDP (90) DET (87) HOU (87) NYM (83)

Third Place Teams 
BOS (89) CIN (83) KCR (82) TEX (81) SFG (81) MIA (79)

Fourth Place Teams
ARI (80) STL (78) TBR (77) ATH (76)  ATL (76) MIN (70)

Fifth Place Teams
BAL (75) LAA (72) PIT (71) WAS (66) CHW (60) COL (43)